[svk-devel] Problem syncing mirror

[Chia-Liang Kao]

Hi Jason,

svk 2 does have make use of the new api found in 1.4 whenever it's
available on both client and server.  So as soon as svn.apache.org
upgrades to 1.4 on the server side, you should be able to sync from
it.  HTH.

Cheers,
CLK


On 11/02/07, Jason Dillon <jason at planet57.com> wrote:
> When asking for status about the dump again from ASF infra William A.
> Rowe, Jr. <wrowe at rowe-clan.net>, mentioned something about new SVN
> sync features in 1.4 which might help solve this problem:
>
> On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:21 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> > Jason Dillon wrote:
> >> Is there a new API or is it just the new svnsync binary?
> >
> > From 1.4 new features, svnsync entry notes...
> >
> > """
> > A new tool — svnsync — is now installed as part of the standard
> > distribution.
> > This tool provides the ability to replicate history from one
> > repository to
> > another. The replication can happen all at once, or can be done
> > incrementally
> > through repeated 'sync' operations. Because the tool uses the
> > abstract network
> > (RA) API, the source and destination repositories can be either
> > local, remote,
> > or any combination thereof.
> >
> > Compatibility note: in order to "push" information into a destination
> > repository, any version of the server will suffice. The pushing is
> > done through
> > ordinary network commits. To "pull" history from the source
> > repository, however,
> > requires a 1.4 (or later) server.
> > """
> >
> > So it's both, the RA API, and the ability do do smaller syncs which
> > would solve
> > the issue you have today with svk.  I'm certain there would be
> > porting work for
> > the svk authors to pick up the RA API.
>
> It would really be helpful if SVK could handle sync'ing repos with
> large revisions better.  Perhaps using the new 1.4 sync support in
> SVN might be more efficient/friendly on the httpd and it won't kill
> the connection too?
>
> Can anyone confirm there are new sync API's in SVN 1.4 which can be
> used by SVK to get more efficient mirror syncing?